Quotes About Presence

We are to appreciate nature, people, and all God's gifts, along with his presence in creation—without being ensnared by them. It has rightly been said that those who are the most detached on the journey are best able to taste the purest joy in the beauty of created things.

Det energetiske menneske har ikke noget behov for at trænge sig på eller præge mennesker og ting. Det lever gennem den inciterende følelse af, at mennesker og ting kommer det i møde,

Mit den Wochen und Monaten wurde das Nachdenken weniger, und sie lernte, einfach nur da zu sein, in einem Zustand aufmerksamer Gleichgültigkeit.

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

Man nahm den Wald nur wahr, wenn man sich in ihm befand.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

At times, when we had spent some time in a particular location and word had spread about our presence, people approached us for interviews. Surprisingly, these were often very poor or vulnerable people, typically women and frequently widows, who wanted someone to listen to their story, just for once. These were some of the most amazing conversations we had.

The ghosts followed us back.

Lord St Ervan, why is it that I am never aware of you until you speak to me?" "I make sure that you are not, for fear you will run away before I can have two words with you," he saidwryly.

I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.

Just look over your shoulder...I'll be there always.

I'll be there for you, always Always and always Just look over your shoulder I'll be there, always.

Martellus: Talking behind my back, are you? Krosp: Of course not! You're right here !

There's a Zen saying I often cite that goes, "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." The point: Stay focused on the task at hand rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. THICH NHAT HANH

She'd long ago given up trying to visualize God. There was no He or She. This was a Presence higher than gender, race or religion, transcending identity. All she would ever hope to do was follow the lamplit path into a place within and yet beyond her own heart and stay there and wait, patient and passive and without forced piety.

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

while anecdotal evidence suggests that lions might still be present in small numbers, a survey undertaken over four months in 2008/09 for the African Journal of Ecology obtained 'no unequivocal evidence' of their continued presence.

We belong to Jesus Christ, because we have all been baptized into His body. Now the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit gives us a spiritual unity that overcomes our differences, enabling us to live together in a caring community that stands out like a city on a hill.

One thing my experience has showed me is that spiritually alive people tend to be insatiably curious about the Divine Presence, refuse to settle for cliché-heavy religion, and feel little obligation to believe something because they are told they must.

If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.